We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now1, and we are very thankful to all designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month.

This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for November 2012. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!

Please note that:

All images can be clicked on and lead to the preview of the wallpaper,

You can feature your work in our magazine2 by taking part in our Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

Days Go By

“Days go by so slowly in Autumn.” Designed by Mirjana Bajic3 from Serbia.

Content Nuggets vs. Data Catchers

“Novius OS is a new CMS built-on “Create Once Publish Everywhere” principle and is powered by these stranges creatures called content nuggets and data catchers.” Designed by Jack Mü – Novius Os97 from France.

Calaca. The Day Of The Dead.

“This illustration was created to celebrate the dawn of one Calaca, in the Day of the Dead (El dia de muertos) this year this year that the world ends, as some say.” Designed by Celsius Pictor359 from Spain.

Join In Next Month!

Please note that we respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience throughout their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

The Smashing team loves high-quality content and cares about the little details. Through our online articles, Smashing Books, eBooks as well as Smashing Conferences, we are committed to stimulating creativity and strengthening the web design community’s creative forces.

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My favorite is “Bursting Chestnut” . I fell in love from that very moment I saw it:) The design itself is simple yet so beautiful. I really like the feeling that the designer conveyed through his work. I should say that Vlad Dusa’s design is successful. Great job!

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All of them are great! But it would be great if you let the people choose how the calendar can be displayed, wether as a horizontal line, a vertical line, or the square traditional count.
Thanks for the efforts!

aswathy

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